How to implent a “maketrans” python function on field calculator

Question

i'm traying to implent python string translate function at field calculatore http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/string_translate.htm in order to fix hebrew imported from cad. here is the code -

def Ttxt (RefName):
  from string import maketrans   
  intab = "asdfghjkl"
  outtab = "שדגכעיחלך"
  return trantab = maketrans(intab, outtab)

Ttxt( !RefName! )

Any sugestion about how to right this function ?

Answer 1

Judging from the examples on the site you would need something like this (untested):

def Ttxt (RefName):
  from string import maketrans   
  intab = "שדגכעיחלך"
  outtab = "asdfghjkl"
  trantab = maketrans(intab, outtab)

  return RefName.translate(trantab)